Reward

Famous quotes containing the word reward:

    Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering- pot and pruning-knife.
    Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)

    The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are “not for an age, but for all time” has his reward in being unreadable in all ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)